Freedman Family Tree

This months Gedcom has been uploaded and includes pictures together with some Birth and Death Certificates as well as a Headstone and a Naturalization declaration

Pictures updated are those of the Prais Family

The certificates and headstone relate to the Goldstein/Schneider/Freedman side (thanks to Daniel Gleek for all his hard input on this side)

We send our sincere condolences to David Poticha on the loss of his Grandmother and to the rest of the Poticha Family

On a nicer note we have the batmitzvah speech of Judith Shonfield which we have added to her event (thanks to Hyam for sorting out into a readable format -and sorting out the pictures too)

Obviously there have been other updates be it births-marriages or deaths so once again please check you own family to see how we are doing – remember there is a lot of information out there on the worldwide web to be had and we could just go and grab it – but it would be nice to have the information direct from families concerned as it does make our life easy to confirm the information

You all know by now how you can help the keep this tree alive for our future generations – just keep send any information – pictures or documents to Sylvia for inclusion

Next update due the middle of the the month

This is something we don’t normally do -but I am posting this on behalf of our local Jewish Genealogy Group

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain is holding its Tenth
Northern Annual Conference in Manchester on Sunday the 13th May.
This is a full day event from 9.30am to 5.00pm with seven speakers,
exhibitors, book stalls etc. The topics covered are varied but
emphasis this year is on Jewish Military Records, to put flesh on
bones instead of just names and dates on family trees. Full details
of the program topics, timings, venue, registration fee etc can be
seen in the conference program - just send an e-mail to
lorna.kay@talktalk.net. For anyone who would be coming from out of
town, there is excellent on-site accommodation at the venue at a very
modest cost for en-suite single or double rooms with kitchen and full
facilities, as well as secure parking.

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If any of you are interested in attending please contact Lorna Kay

Hope everyone is having a nice pesach/easter which ever you are celebrating

I keep asking people to interact with this blog and for once somebody had done – below is a copy of an email I received from our cousin Stanley Freedman in Rhode Island – Read the email and watch the video from the link and let’s give this little girl a chance to accomplish her dream by giving her your vote

Hi:
This message is from Cousin Bob Freedman, Morris' son. Morris was my dad's brother.
Maybe you could send it on to the freedman tree all over the world.
Stan

Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:25 AM

Subject: Scolarship opportunity

Hi,

My trumpet-playing granddaughter/goddaughter Emmalee Baillargeon is a candidate for the Comeback Athlete of the Year award, which carries a $2,000 scholarship prize to be applied to her higher education.
If you should be so inclined you could vote for her at http://www.azcentral.com/advert/pch2012/index.php
It’s actually legal to cast one vote per day through the 20th of this month.

Thanks for your consideration,
Bob Freedman

The latest gedcom has been uploaded and as promised with the help of Daniel Gleek there is new information on the Schneider/Goldstein/Milner side – as said previously it’s going to be a hard slog to get all this sorted out

We started working on this only a few weeks ago as it was brought to my attention that most of this family was missing by Cathy and Vivie and we want to thank you as it has kicked both myself and Daniel into doing something about it

Don’t think we’ve forgotten about the rest of the families – I can assure you we haven’t but again we can’t do it all on our own so any input is greatly appreciated – go check out your own families and let us know where bits are still missing

As mentioned before Hyam is willing to sort out pictures and documents should you have any that you would like to see included – we especially need updated pictures of the younger generations as they grow older so do the pictures – lets have some nice new ones

Guess this is all for now – and due to Pesach and Easter there will not be a midmonth update so we take this opportunity to wish you all happy holidays no matter which one you celebrate – enjoy them all

The month end gedcom has just been upload – I’ve not really given the tree much attention over the last month or so but now I’m back into the swing of it

The latest additions picture wise are that of the Rosenberg family and thanks are due to Andrew Lister for allowing us to share parts of his tree – The Prais family thanks to Michael Prais – The Knopf family thanks to Julian Knofp and Hyam for sharing family simcha pictures with us

By the end of next month we should hopefully have some more information on the Schnieder/Goldstein side this is thanks to Daniel Gleek – we’ve being trying to sort out and confirm information on this side for many years and now it has come to fruition

As mentioned many times before ‘It’s your tree just as much as it is ours’ and we can’t do all the work on our own – so again please check your own family and extended families and see if you can help with anything – no matter how small every little helps – pictures-documents- and anything else you might have is always welcome and by now you know where to email them to for inclusion next time

Next update should be in the middle of the month – just keep watching this space

The lasted Gedcom has been upload – not much has happened in the past month or so apart from birth-marriages and deaths being added when they happened

We still need your input – we can’t do it all on our own – so please check out your families and let us know if anything needs updating or amending – point us is the right direction and we’ll do the rest

As this tree has been going now for many years we have noticed that a lot of pictures are very out of date and if you would like to forward us more up to date ones I’m sure Hyam will help to update them – you know who to send them to and please send at best resolution – we can sort them out at this end

This was short and sweet and hopefully there will be lot to report next update – so watch this space

Happy New Year to everyone – the year end gedcom has been uploaded with lots of  headstone pictures included as well as the odd marriage picture and other obscure bits

We would like to thank everyone who over the past year has contributed even if only in a little way – it really does help – we want to keep this tree alive for our future generations so that they will always know about their ancestors and where they came from

Please keep checking your own families to see how we are doing and if you spot anything that needs amending or updating let us know – more and more records are becoming available on line and most information can be sought from them but it’s nice to have the information direct from family members so that we can make sure the on line genealogy sites have it right

Your feed back would be nice – we hate to think we are doing all this for nothing – you can post comments to this blog if you wish by hitting the comments button

That’s about all I have to say for now – the next update with be around the middle of the month so watch this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did a blog posting a little while back but don’t think the emails got sent so please if you do get this have a look at the previous posting

Danny has just uploaded the latest gedcom – there hasn’t been much happening the last few weeks or so as we’re still waiting for stuff from people who have promised to help but nothing has been forthcoming – I can’t do it all on my own – Liz and I can do the research as long as we have a starting point – so once again please check out your own families and let us know if anything needs amending or further researching

I will be sending out reminder emails to those who offered to help just to jog their memory of what they offered in the next few weeks unless you remember and contact me about it

Three families will be celebrating a barmitzvah  in the next few weeks and wish mazel tov to the Clyne-Knopf and Prais families and it would be nice if we could have a copy of their invitations so we can add them to the relevent children – scan them and send to sylvia

The next update will be towards the middle of the month

The tree is will be having more data added especially to the descendants of David Cofnas thank to Hannah Portal who is a 7th generation descendant (welcome Hannah and your immediate family) who just recently made contact with me – I’m so excited about this as we’ve tried for many years to obtain this information via other members of the Freedman/Cofnas family

Hannah is really excited too about finding us and has offered to get us as much information as she can on all her cousins which include Portal-Aharon-Gordon and Kahan families – so for those of you who recognize these names keep a look out for updates to them in the coming months

On looking at the tree earlier I noticed that Ruth and Morris Weintraub celebrate their golden wedding today and we wish them mazeltov – another mazeltov to Lena Koskie who will be 90 this month – it’s so nice to know we still have some of the older generations with us and that this tree serves as a legacy to them for their future generations

The orignal Cofnas descendants now number 8 generations and I’m pretty sure that some of the extended families their descendants may even be 9 or 10 generation now – so we really have come a long way over the many years this tree has been going

We still want any information or documents that you might have and by now you know where to send them

Keep watching this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!